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PlanSource Overview

What is PlanSource?

PlanSource has 20 years of HR Industry experience starting as a benefits administration platform and has evolved to a benefits engagement solution. We partner with an expansive set of carriers, HCM companies and lifestyle benefit providers enabling our customers and members to live happier, healthier lives by maximizing their benefits. Our core values center around creating wildly successful customers and we do so by investing in innovation and solving fundamental benefits concerns like decision support, carrier integrations and benefits utilization differently, allowing you to engage team members year-round rather than just 15 minutes yearly during your annual open enrollment. While PlanSource has the bones and history of a top-tier benefits administration platform, we have transcended into a new category focused on engagement. Our administration platform is at the core, however, surrounding that are all the features and components necessary to truly maximize the value of your benefits package, make your benefit plans relevant 24/7/365. We’re excited to help you understand our offering and the problems we solve and ultimately make it clear what you should expect with PlanSource as your best-in-class Benefits Engagement Provider.

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Product Description

PlanSource is a multi-carrier benefits administration platform that supports benefits programs including both defined contribution and defined benefit models.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Advanced platform configurability, combined with a front-end experience optimized for efficiency, engagement and adoption, are what set our system apart. This flexibility allows PlanSource to scale upmarket and down to meet the needs of any benefits program and setup, no matter how complex.

Additionally, our strong partnerships with more than 550 national and regional insurance brokers and 13 leading insurance carriers deliver >25% time and cost savings to your team. PlanSource is also approved to operate as a TPA in all 50 states and have surrounding services that provide:

-Employee Contact Center
-Benefits Outsourcing
-Billing Reconciliation and Payment
-COBRA Administration
-HSA/FSA/HRA Administration
-Dependent Verification
-Employee Communications


Seller Details
Year Founded
2008
HQ Location
Orlando, FL
Twitter
@PlanSource
1,614 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
661 employees on LinkedIn®

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Andrew C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Plansource Review"
Plansource has many features and is pretty customizable.
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3.5 out of 5
"Review of Ben Admin - Plansource"
It is a good system that houses the benefits that we offer.
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4.5 out of 5
"PlanSource is Very Client Centric"
Ever evolving platform that meet client needs
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PlanSource Media

PlanSource Demo - PlanSource Enrollment Screen
PlanSource features an intuitive and user-friendly employee experience optimized for engagement.
PlanSource Demo - PlanSource Educational Videos
PlanSource supports video directly within the enrollment experience for timely education.
PlanSource Demo - PlanSource Decision Support
PlanSource offers the ability to easily compare different plans and built-in decision support tools.
PlanSource Demo - PlanSource Mobile-Friendly
PlanSource's mobile-friendly ('responsive') design allows for effortless enrollment on any device.
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

Plansource is a benefit administration system that allows for other software system to be integrated with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

Plansource has presented some challenges for our benefit administration as the system can be slow, reports do not run as requested, and the system can be finicky with parameters for end users. I often find myself contacting our broker for assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

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What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

My predecessor worked with Plansource to integrate with our payroll and benefit carriers as she saw this as an opportunity on the workload. Plansource is helpful when the reports are pulling accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron R.
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

What I like best is the ease of letting the system do all the work and get our employees enrolled in benefits. Once setup its pretty hands off for my department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

Nothing really to dislike about the software. Only dislike is waiting for customization in the software and process due to our business model, but that's not fault to Plansource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

Recommend if looking for very end user friendly product. All benefit pages are customizable and easy for employees to understand what they are signing up for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has freed up 1-2 people in my department for in-year enrollments. It has also greatly reduced calls about benefits during annual open enrollment. It has allowed our department to stay the number of people while our company has grown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KD
Benefits Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

The reporting is very robust and user-friendly. It tremendously helps to cut my time in report preparation, etc. since I can easily click on essentially any report necessary. And the benefit summary page for each employee is an easy, go-to view for each employee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

I think from a member-perspective it could be more user-friendly. Also I would like a few more capabilities on the employer side that would limit how often I need to seek help from the PlanSource service team.

Open enrollment needs to only give the "enroll-annual" option and not also the "make changes to my benefits" option. It causes confusion.

Service would be better with one account manager/point of contact for each customer group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

I would recommend monthly reconciliation to your census within the system to ensure accuracy or reporting. Pay close attention during your contract renewal process; they have tried to push large rate increases on us in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

This platform aids me in self-invoicing during the year with various vendors, and certainly makes ACA reporting much, much simpler. It also makes my job easier to have each employee's benefit elections all under one umbrella for viewing etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KC
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

The customer service from Troy Farnell and the HCM Service Team is what I like the best about PlanSource. They are quick to help respond to any issue we have. Second, would be the product itself. It has improved our payroll, benefits and timekeeping experience, by integrating those functions. The interface is fairly easy to use, once you learn where everything is. The service is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

We were disappointed with the implementation process. We felt we did not get the kind of advising we needed about PlanSource's capabilities and how best to set it up for our needs as a company and that caused a lot of problems the first year. I was very vocal with PlanSource about our disappointment and made recommendations to them on how they could improve the implementation experience. The have great customer service, however, and problems that could be fixed were fixed. And their customer service has been excellent ever since. I do feel that PlanSource has redeemed itself after the poor implementation experience. We have been very happy with it overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

Make sure your implementation team understands what your company's needs are, and ask a lot of questions and take your time with the process. Expect to devote a lot of time to implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use PlanSource for payroll, timekeeping, benefits and performance management. It has streamlined things for employees, giving them one place to "do it all." It has made our benefits experience much better, as benefits are incorporated with our carriers directly and with our payroll. The customer service provided by Troy and the HCM Service Team has been exceptional. That is very valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michelle S.
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

Plan Source benefit admin system is a wonderful system to use. Very easy to use, easy set up and the team is wonderful to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

It is a great system. I would recommend Plan Source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

I would recommend Plan Source to other users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it as our benefit admin system, life event approvals are easy, it is easy to use, open enrollment setup is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanSource?

PlanSource is super easy to maneuver through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

It's a platform that is hard to get to talk to a payroll platform when it's not used as a centralized platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

PlanSource is a 3rd party for us through OneDigital. It's a hard platform to get to push out the correct numbers on some of our benefits especially since we increase costs for no physicals. Sometimes I'll put that an employee has a physical, but it will never register the correct amount. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

PlanSource has made it much easier for us to get employees registered in benefits. This is the only area in which we use it, but it's beneficial for our tech-savvy employees to make changes and register on their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kimberly W.
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

For our employees, having access to all of their benefit plans at any time truly provides a value add experience for not only the remote field employees but also their spouses. It helps reduce the number of calls that my department takes throughout the year questioning their benefit plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

The only downside to PlanSource is the inability to connect with our current Payroll provider. Granted, we knew this going into the implementation and was not a deal breaker for us. We needed to streamline our benefits process and this provided us an avenue to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

We truly have the ability to communicate better with our remote employees and their families. PlanSource has provided us with a venue to improve that communication and also gives the employees and their families the opportunity to review and change their benefits if they need to without always calling my department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanSource?

I like that I can manage my employee benefits accounts with ease. I also like the quick response feedback I receive from PlanSource administrators when I'm in need of assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

I don't like that the program cannot correspond certain changes to certain carriers when updated in the system - I have to fill out an excel spreadsheet and send it to be manually entered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

I am not yet qualified to lend advise as I haven't utilized other benefits programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

I no longer have to have new employees fill out paper copies of their benefits enrollment - they are prompted by a pre-filled email to enroll and the PDF is available once completed for my physical personnel files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyla H.
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Benefits Account Manager
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What do you like best about PlanSource?

The group does not need much assistance with beenfits administration throughout the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

It's complicated to run a simple census, and the experience I had with last years renewal was unforgivable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PlanSource:

Only if you have a simple plan structure - medical, dental, vision - no voluntary coverages that require EOI's or multiple classes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm not sure why this was initially sold to the case, but the group likes the online administration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanSource?

I like that it shows your previous year selections; makes it easy for you to decide to keep those same benefits or change to a different plan. I also like that it shows your total deduction per pay period as you select your benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanSource?

it can be a little confusing selecting benefits; more explanations would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PlanSource solving and how is that benefiting you?

benefits selection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.